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Posted: 21 October 2005 at 9:29pm | IP Logged
Not sure if you have been watching Telly?? But dh has just told me a Parrot in quarentine has died from a strain of Bird Flu...So what does this mean now??
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Posted: 21 October 2005 at 10:21pm | IP Logged
It doesn't really mean an awful lot to us. The bird died in September in quarantine. It had been imported from South America. GB is still classed as free from bird flu as the bird was in quarentine. Just glad we still have fairly tight quarentine laws in this country.
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Posted: 22 October 2005 at 8:48am | IP Logged
Im not liking these stories 1 bit. I heard on the news that another person has died from it (not in GB tho) & it was from eating an infected bird?
On the plus side we r now supposed 2 b getting enough vaccinations for the whole of britain, originally there was only gonna b enough for 1/4 of the population but it could b months b4 we recieve any, there was talk of us not having any until July 2006
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Posted: 22 October 2005 at 9:38am | IP Logged
July 2006 is not too bad as as the Avian flu if it reaches GB isn't meant to get here until around September 2006. The Government are also stocking up on the drug to treat the virus. I wouldn't panic just yet unless you are travelling to any country that has it then you would be advised to seek medical advice first.
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Topic: Bird flu!!
Thats good!! it getting to be a really mad world with live in. 
same here Hun..
